IAP for Health is a network of the world's medical academies and medical sections of academies of science and engineering. Founded in 2000 as the InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP), it is committed to improving health world-wide. The goals of IAP for Health are to: strengthen the capacity of academies to provide evidence based advice to governments on health and science policy; to support the creation of new academies; to support the creation of projects by member academies to strengthen research and higher education in their countries; and to issue consensus statements on matters of importance to global health.

Primary objectives

Governance

GENERAL ASSEMBLY
the highest decision-making body consisting of Presidents of all member academies (with link to IAP for Health member academy map)

Fifteen experts from 15 different countries joined with nine experts from China in Beijing on 22-24 September 2015 to explore the topic of traditional medicine. The symposium, hosted by IAMP, the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences ...

This report by the Academy of Medical Sciences and IAP for Health identifies a number of key gaps and barriers in clinical research capacity across the different regions of the world and potential opportunities to further strengthen clinical research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). ...

The Accademia Medica di Roma has published a third report on a project assessing the feasibility for a Health Science Education Programme in compulsory primary schools. The project has been partly co-sponsored by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italy) and has received funds from IAP and IAP for ...